| Date | Time | Location |
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| Wednesday, October 27, 2021 | 1:00PM - 2:00PM | Online Event, Online Event |
Pavel Pšeja, PhD, is a university lecturer and translator working in several fields. He currently lectures in three universities in the Czech Republic (Masaryk University in Brno, Metropolitan University Prague, and CEVRO Institute Prague); in the past, he was teaching in many universities all over the world including the US, Israel, Austria, and Germany. He has (co-)authored more than 70 articles, chapters, and books published both in the Czech Republic, and abroad.
As regards the non-academic sphere, he is active as an evaluation expert of the European Commission, and as a Country Expert of prestigious project Varieties of Democracy. He has worked in expert positions at the Committies of the Regions in Brussels, and the Council of Europe in Strassbourg. He is also a member of the Czech pool of the International Election Observers, having completed four missions organized by the OSCE, EU, and CoE respectively.
In last fifteen years, he has been actively working in CSO sector, focusing upon the issues of democracy promotion and human rights, and performing various roles ranging from from the field trainer to the Chair of the Board. Finally, he translated into the Czech language more than a dozen of books in the fields of social sciences, history etc., including works by J. M. Keynes, P, Berger, or P. Johnson.
Milan Nič is senior fellow in the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies (AOZ). He focuses on geopolitical competition, global issues, and interregional dynamics. From September 2019 to February 2021, he was head of the Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, which he had joined in April 2017 as a senior fellow.
Nič previously headed the Europe program at the GLOBSEC Policy Institute in Bratislava, Slovakia, and was managing director of its predecessor, the Central European Policy Institute (CEPI). From 2010 to 2012, he served as senior adviser to the Deputy Foreign Minister of Slovakia. Prior to that, he advised the High Representative/EU Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Nič began his professional career as a broadcaster at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, covering the transition period in Central and Eastern Europe. He was later an analyst at the European Stability Initiative and program director at the Pontis Foundation.
Nič earned his MPhil from the Charles University in Prague and his MA at the Central European University in Budapest. He also studied at the Bologna Center of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
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